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Originally Posted by preciousjeni
When you're running as the foreign policy/military candidate, you need to have your facts straight.
I'm with you. I don't see how it's disqualifying. But, it does shake up his campaign's foundation a bit.
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I don't think that too many people who are thinking of McCain as their guy are going to be bothered by him getting the sequence wrong because they will agree with his overall point: don't take away from the accomplishments of the US military by attributing something that is primarily a result of their efforts to other groups, especially in an attempt to make Obama look insightful.
Here's the thing: if one is prepared to accept that Obama's present and emerging positions are the ones we can expect him to act on, then he seems reasonable and might attracted people who are satisfied with what he's saying today and tomorrow on foreign policy and the military. But if you look at the record of what people actually voted on and supported, it's going to be really hard to beat McCain on Iraq and the war on terror.
The press can keep hammering away on stuff like this and errors in what he says about causation, but they will always have to deal with the things McCain has actually done for the military, and when those things are contrasted with what Obama has actually done, versus what he says, it may be harder to make McCain come out the loser.